Shipley Model Railway Society
Past Layouts
1st September 1978

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Evercreech Junction 4mm Finescale - sold in 1988. The layout was featured in the June and July 1984 issues of Railway Modeller
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 Evercreech Junction 4mm Finescale - sold in 1988. A pair of Somerset & Dorset 7F 2-8-0s doublehead the Pines Express through Evercreech Junction.
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 Evercreech Junction 4mm Finescale - sold in 1988.
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 Evercreech Junction 4mm Finescale - sold in 1988. Following the formation of the society the 4mm Finescale Group constructed a layout of Evercreech Junction on the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.
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There is a village called Fossebridge. It is a very small village in Gloucestershire, but it was passed by in the railway age and it never had a railway. However as is the want of many modellers we have taken licence, changed history, and given it one! Our Fossebridge is set in the late Twenties, early Thirties and is a thriving market town of some ten thousand people served by a branch line terminus, and supports among other things a dairy, a pub (of course, what else!) with the towns folk going about their daily work in the smithy, on the farms around the town, in the dairy etc Our railway as we see it at Fossebridge represents the Great Western Railway at its zenith, one might argue, and is often the case just before its fall. An organisation which filled the role of common carrier, as indeed did all railways of the day, willing and able to handle any kind of merchandise, raw material, stock; human and otherwise, from milk to coal, explosives to pigeons. The wonderful palmy days of steam, full employment on the railway and a public which could afford to travel and no leaves and no snow.
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 Our Fossebridge station runs to a very busy schedule, far busier of course than would have been the case in those far off days. Likewise locomotive stock represents a far wider range than one would have been likely to see at the time on a branch line! We offer the opportunity to view classes of GWR locomotives examples of which are now lovingly held in preservation hands, but some also that are now extinct! Fossebridge can now accommodate three trains simultaneously, or four with careful planning as well as longer trains than before. The layout has an eight road fiddle yard.
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 This Great Western branchline has undergone some significant changes over the last few years in order to enhance its operating potential. The layout was originally constructed as an elongated letter J with a shed, turntable and station approaches. This area survives but an extra three boards have been added making the layout 46 feet long. It is 2'6
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 The brewery at Fossebridge
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Fossebridge shed. This layout was sold in 2006.
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 Griffin Road N gauge (now sold) - a modern image layout which represents a fairly busy terminus station at the end of a double track line is set in the early 1990's. A selection of passenger and freight workings can be seen, which were typical of the area. Most stock operating on the layout, including locos, coaches and wagons are detailed ready-to-run items, with majority of coaching stock and multiple units close-coupled to give a more realistic appearance.
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 Horton N gauge layout. (1) A freelance layout based on the Settle & Carlisle line and sold in the late 1980s.
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 Horton N gauge layout. (2) A typical Midland Railway style country station was depicted in both pre and post nationalisation eras.
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Horton N gauge layout. (3) Set in moorland surroundings were a small goods yard and a limestone quarry served by a private siding. These provided sources of freight traffic.
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 Horton N gauge layout. (4) Passenger services comprised both local passenger and express trains.
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 Rattlesnake Pass - American N gauge layout now dismantled. This layout represented a fictious railroad built around 1865, the Ogden Northeastern Railroad. Rattlesnake Pass formed a bridging link across Wyoming, originating at Ogden Utah, heading North to the Union Pacific near Kemmerer, Wyoming, crossing the Great Divide through Rattlesnake Pass and on to connect with the Great Northern at Red Lodge, Montana.
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Rattlesnake Pass - American N gauge layout now dismantled. In 1931 the Ogden Northeastern was purchased jointly by the Southern Pacific & Great Northern for handling perishable products going to the northeast and Canada and returning with forestry products for the west coast.
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 Rattlesnake Pass - American N gauge layout now dismantled. Today the 750 mile long line is operated jointly by the Burlington Northern and Southern Pacific / Denver & Rio Grande to expidite container and piggyback traffic around the heavily trafficed Nebraska coal fields where track capacity is a premium.
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 Rattlesnake Pass - American N gauge layout now dismantled. A wide range of mixed freight operates over this line along with an Amtrak passenger service between Chicago and Los Angeles. There are two major industries at the town. Railroad ballast is provided by the gravel quarry as well as the odd coal load as a coal seam has been broken into. The local farmers co-op is served by the grain silo and during the harvest season grain trains are backed up waiting to ship out the grain to the major cities in surrounding states. The town is also served by local freights dropping off a few cars, and a local switcher is often to be found when traffic is at a minimum.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout as exhibited at Wigan. This layout, which was sold in 2004, allowed the observer to pick a lineside spot, imagine that they were in the period between 1948 and 1963 and enjoy watching the trains go by..... From the right came trains heading North and trains from the left were heading South. You would have arrived by train or the A6 - no motorway existed (yet). Tebay is situated in the beautiful but wild and remote Lune valley in the Cumbrian hills. It often rains and the winds frequently blow down Tebay Gorge or down from the high fells. You would have been fortunate, the summers day was fine and visibility good. In between the passing trains and shunting movements all you would have heard is the bleating of sheep. The West coast main line stretched before you in both directions. Looking as far as you could see to the south, the line crossed the river Lune on a girder bridge immediately prior to throwing off a loop on the down line. The loop was well used, principally by goods trains, to avoid delaying following faster freight or passenger trains.
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Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. The station was used primarily as an interchange station by passengers using the branchline which ran to Kirkby Stephen, then further east, over Stainmore summit, and eventually to Barnard Castle and beyond.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. The engine shed, code 11D (12H after May 1960), had an allocation of locomotives for banking heavy trains up Shap bank and for local trip freight. The shed building was in good condition having been rebuilt between 1948 and 1950. The 50’ turntable, 53’ with its extension rails in use, was long enough to turn the longest locomotives allocated to the shed, the 2-6-0 lvatt “Mucky Ducks”.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. The distinctive coaling and ash plants were brought into use in 1956.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Foremost in this view is Fowler 4MT 2-6-4T no.42396, a 1933 built variant with a side window cab of this 1927 designed class. The distinctive coaling and ash plants were also new being brought into use in 1956. Running down the back of the shed were the North exchange and engineers sidings. Seventy one houses were built for railway employees alongside the line and some of these could be seen overlooking the station. In quiet periods a closer look at the houses would spot the railwayman who had slept in.
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